Apr201216

Though it’s been around for a long time, I’m often surprised that so many people haven’t heard of it yet. TinEye is a reverse image search that allows you to upload an image from your computer, or paste in the url of an image on the web, and it will then search through it’s database of 18 million images to find where else that image is on the web, and it does so in a few seconds. The image may be slightly altered, a different size, yet it still does a miraculous job of finding the image you provide all across the web.

This is useful for finding the source of an image, the copyright holder, finding out if someone is using your images with or without your permission and a myriad of other potential uses.